Spontaneous Order, Liberty, and Austrian Economics

26 Pages Posted: 7 Feb 2012

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Richard E. Wagner

George Mason University - Department of Economics; George Mason University - Mercatus Center

Date Written: February 7, 2012

Abstract

This essay is a response to five essays that collectively constituted a symposium sponsored by Studies in Emergent Order on my 2010 book, Mind, Society, and Human Action: Time and Knowledge in a Theory of Social Economy. This essay offers individual reactions to each of the five contributors (Adam Martin, Peter Boettke, Roger Koppl, Paul Lewis, and Bruce Benson), and closes with some general reflections on spontaneous order theorizing in relation to economics and liberty.

Keywords: emergence, spontaneous order, mainline vs. mainstream economics, emergent dynamics vs. comparative statics, entangled political economy

JEL Classification: B13, B40, D01, D50

Suggested Citation

Wagner, Richard E., Spontaneous Order, Liberty, and Austrian Economics (February 7, 2012). GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 12-06, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2000465 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2000465

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